The Maine Monitor Radio Hour

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.

This month: Sawyer Loftus, an investigative reporter with Maine Focus, the investigative team at the Bangor Daily News and partner of The Maine Monitor, walks us through a story he worked on with ProPublica about a wave of foreclosures on Maine homes purchased with loans from the United States Department of Agriculture.

Guests:
Sawyer Loftus, [email protected]

FMI:
themainemonitor.org/usda-maine-foreclosures-rural-homeowners/

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.

This month: Josh Keefe takes listeners behind the scenes of his recent reporting on Maine’s child welfare system, including the story of one Maine woman’s fight to get her son back after an incident in a Presque Isle parking lot.

Guests:
Josh Keefe, government accountability reporter: [email protected]

FMI:
themainemonitor.org/spanking-or-abuse/
themainemonitor.org/maine-foster-care-population-grew-fastest-nationally/

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.

This month: Reporters Rose Lundy and Kristian Moravec discuss their reporting on workforce shifts and challenges in health care and clean energy.

Guests:
Rose Lundy, [email protected]
Kristian Moravec, [email protected]

FMI:
themainemonitor.org/
themainemonitor.org/heat-pump-workforce-development/
themainemonitor.org/healthcare-workforce-diversity/

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.

This month: Child welfare and healthcare in Maine.

Guests:
Josh Keefe and Rose Lundy

FMI:
themainemonitor.org/

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.

This month: A discussion with Maine Monitor editor Kate Cough and community news fellow Emily Hedegard about their recent series on Maine’s maternity care crisis, as well as the recent announcement that MDI Hospital will close its birthing unit.

Guests:
Kate Cough, [email protected]
Emily Hedegard, [email protected]

FMI:
themainemonitor.org/maternity-care-crisis/
themainemonitor.org/mdi-birthing-unit-closure/

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.

This month: A discussion with Maine Monitor environmental reporter Emmett Gartner about the future of Maine’s dams, including the dams on Silver Lake, Alamoosook Lake, and Toddy Pond.

Guests:
Emmett Gartner, Environmental Reporter, [email protected]

FMI:
themainemonitor.org/bucksport-dam-event/
themainemonitor.org/divided-on-dams/

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.

This month: The Maine Monitor’s senior health reporter Rose Lundy discusses proposed staffing regulations for assisted living facilities in Maine, as well as other aspects of her investigative and accountability reporting on the long-term care industry.

Guests:
Rose Lundy, [email protected]

FMI:
themainemonitor.org/care-facility-staffing-proposal-amended/
themainemonitor.org/door-knocking-context/
themainemonitor.org/residential-care-growing-need/
themainemonitor.org/maine-proposes-care-facility-staffing-changes/

The Maine Monitor Radio Hour is a collaboration between WERU-FM and the Maine Monitor, the nonpartisan, independent publication of the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting.

This month: Maine’s indigent defense crisis.

Symposium co-hosted by The Maine Monitor and the Maine Indigent Defense Center, recorded by the University of Maine at Augusta events team.

Guests:
Josh Keefe, government accountability reporter.
Robert Ruffner, director of the Maine Indigent Defense Center.
Ron Schneider, the general counsel and vice president of legal affairs at the University of New England.
Tina Nadeau, executive director of the Maine Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.

FMI:
themainemonitor.org/indigent-defense-symposium-discussions/